Load-balancing Ingress with MetalLB on MicroK8s

Out of the box, the MicroK8s distribution of ingress-nginx installed as the MicroK8s addon ingress binds to ports 80+443 on the node’s IP address using a hostPort, as we can see here on line 20: This is fine for a single-node deployment, but now MicroK8s supports clustering we need to find a way of load-balancing our Ingress, as a multi-node cluster will […]

Exposing the Kubernetes Dashboard with an Ingress

With MicroK8s it’s easy to enable the Kubernetes Dashboard by running If you’re running MicroK8s on a local PC or VM, you can access the dashboard with kube-proxy as described in the docs, but if you want to expose it properly then the best way to do this is with an Ingress resource. Firstly, make […]

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Load-balancing Ingress with MetalLB on MicroK8s

Exposing the Kubernetes Dashboard with an Ingress